Stanley Royd Hospital, Former Pauper Lunatic Asylum Wakefield
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- čas přidán 4. 01. 2009
- Stanley Royd - Former, Pauper Lunatic Asylum - Wakefield
Archive footage from the sixties and nineties.
The building was necessary to care for the treatment and care of the insane poor, and work began on it in 1816. The main builders were John Robson, John Billinton and William Pockrin - all from Wakefield. Work was completed and the hospital occupied by the 23rd of November 1818. The eventual cost of the building work was £23,000 being £7,000 more than the contracted price. The total cost was shown in the records as £36,448. 4s. 9¼d.
The building stood in an area of 25 acres. For privacy the grounds were surrounded by plantation in either Wakefield or Stanley to be quiet, peaceful and secluded. It was a much needed hospital for in the early part of the 19th century very little was available by way of treatment for mental illness.
Before the opening of this asylum, sufferers were incarcerated in prisons, workhouses or in their own homes at none of which treatment was available except for purging, bleeding or mechanical restraint. Some of records of mechanical restraint make horrific reading. There was a case of a James Norris who, at Bethlem Hospital, London, was chained for several years to a vertical bar fixed to a wall, able only to slide in his chains from a sitting to a standing position. Records tell at Wakefield of a woman patient admitted from Barnsley Workhouse where she had been chained in a cell for no less than 36 years.
www.highroydshospital.co.uk - www.meanwoodpark.co.uk and now www.stanleyroydhospital.co.uk
My Grandad was in there for years until his death in 1959. George Hector McNulty R.I.P.
The ward which your nan spoke about was Juniper - it was one of the ladies wards at the far end of the hospital - the side rooms on the ward were haunted there as well, there was one which was permanently cold and unpleasant to be in, it was used as a store room. The majority of wards had ghosts, you didn't go to certain parts of the hospital on your own when it was dark! Me and my mum probably worked with your grandma!
rest in peace for all the people who died in the insain asylums all over the world
My dad worked here, he still tells us stories of what it was like
i lived in one of the appartments that was built there. Great vid man.
What dreary places they were. If you weren't mental when you went in you soon were after a few weeks there.
That footage from the 60's is brilliant 5* mate
Hi, is it possible to speak to you about using this for a news item about the 75th anniversary of the NHS? Thank you!
i find this fairly fascinating
some great footage there well done mark
I pass it often as only 20 mins away .
I see this when on way too wakie shopping and always said "I'd love too live in 1 of them apartments
Great video, just subbed guy's.
Do you still live in one of the apartments? I live in one as well, and I've only just come across this footage. Really fascinating to say the least.
Cookridge is a good explore too !
So sad x
haunted as fook
I worked in the hospital in 1978 , great hospital but some arrogant rubbish staff.